MFPS 23 Preliminary Announcement The 23rd Conference on the Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics (MFPS 23) will take place in New Orleans, LA USA from April 11 to April 14, 2007. The Conference will be held on the campus of Tulane University, as has been the case with previous MFPS meetings in New Orleans. This is a preliminary announcement to provide important dates for submissions to the conference. MFPS 23 will feature six invited addresses by programming semantics, its mathematical and logical underpinnings, and in related areas. There also will be a number of special sessions, and a Tutorial Day on April 10 will precede the meeting. Among the special sessions will be one honoring Gordon Plotkin on his many contributions to the area. This session will be organized by Samson Abramsky (Oxford). The MFPS 23 Program Committee will be chaired by Marcelo Fiore (Cambridge). The important dates are: Friday, December 15 - Deadline for submission of titles and short abstracts of intended submissions Friday, December 22 - Deadline for submission of full papers Friday, February 9 - Announcement of accepted papers Friday, March 2 - Deadline for submission of accepted papers in final form As was done this year, the Proceedings of the meeting will be published in final form at the time of the meeting, in hard copy and online in the ENTCS series. In addition, there will be a special journal issue composed of selected papers from the meeting, compiled after the meeting takes place. A full Call for Papers will be forthcoming around September 15, including the list of PC members, the names of the invited speakers, the full list of special sessions and their organizers, and specifics about the Tutorial Day activities. More information about the MFPS series can be found at its web site http://www.math.tulane/edu/~mfps/ mfps.html =============================================== Professor Michael Mislove Phone: +1 504 862-3441 Department of Mathematics FAX: +1 504 865-5063 Tulane University URL: http://www.math.tulane.edu/~mwm New Orleans, LA 70118 USA ===============================================